Economics Faculty



Gary Yohe


Office: PAC 328

Telephone: x3658
     (From off-campus: 860-685-3658)

Office Hours: T W R 11:00- Noon             

E-Mail: gyohe@wesleyan.edu




Current Research Interests:  
 
Adaptation and the potential damage of global climate change continues to be a focus of my research. There are three distinct lines of inquiry. One looks at the micro responses to investigate the degree to which assuming efficient markets biases the estimates of cost and/or limits the range of potential adaptation. A second looks at trying to estimate reduced form cost functions when data are scarce. The third investigates the role of uncertainty and the search for robust and/or hedging strategies in formulating policy.
Key Words: Adaptation, Global Change Policy, Sea Level Rise, Economic Cost, Uncertainty

Recent Publications:

 

“Indicators for Social and Economic Coping Capacity – Moving Toward a Working Definition of Adaptive Capacity” (with Richard Tol), Global Environmental Change, forthcoming, 2002.

“The Economics of an Efficient Reliance on Biomass, Carbon Capture, and Carbon Sequestration in a Kyoto-style Emissions Control Environment”, The OPEC Review, forthcoming, 2001.

“Segregation and the Provision of Spatially Defined Local Public Goods” (with Henry Wasserman), The American Economist, forthcoming, 2001.

“Constructing "Not Implausible" Climate and Economic Scenarios for Egypt” (with Kenneth Strzepek, David Yates, Richard Tol, and Nicholas Mader), Integrated Assessment, forthcoming 2001.

“Mitigative Capacity – The Mirror Image of Adaptive Capacity on the Emissions Side”, Climatic Change, May 2001.

“The Hybrid Permit cum Price Ceiling Policy Proposal: Intuition from the Prices vs Quantities Literature”, OPEC Review, December 2000.

“Integrated Assessment of Climate Change – the Next Generation of Questions” in Climate Impact Research: Why, How and When?, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Akademie Verlag Press, Berlin, 2000.

“The Economics of Climate Change”, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon Press, Ansterdam, 2000.

“Sea Level Rise and Global Climate Change: A Review of Impacts to the U.S. Coast” (with James Neumann, Robert Nicholls and Michelle Manion), Pew Center on Global Climate Change, March 2000 and  Climate Change: Science, Strategies and Solutions, Brill Academic Publishers, New York, 2001

“The Who-how of Adaptation: towards more realistic impact assessments” (with Hadi Dowlatabadi), Global Environmental Change, 2000 (also presented at OECD Meeting on Climate Change, Paris, France, June 15, 1999).

“Aggregation – Selected Comments on Strengths and Weaknesses with Application to Issues of Cost and Equity”, Proceedings of the IPCC Expert Meeting on Costing Issues, Tokyo, Japan, June 28-July 1, 1999 (TERI, New Dehli) and the Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, 2000.

“On Assessing the Application of Simplified, Parametric Representations of Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation Costs in Decision Analysis Models”, Proceedings of the IPCC Expert Meeting on Costing Issues, Tokyo, Japan, June 28-July 1, 1999, TERI, New Dehli, India, 2000 and the Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, 2000.

“Economic Sustainability, Indicators and Climate Change” (with Richard Moss) in Proceedings of the IPCC Expert Meeting on Development, Equity, and Sustainability, Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 27-29, World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1999.

“Adaptation and the Guardrail Approach to Tolerable Climate Change” (with Ferenc Toth), Climatic Change, 2000.

“Assessing the Role of Adaptation in Evaluating Vulnerability to Climate Change”, Climatic Change, 2000.

“The Tolerable Window Approach - Lessons and Limitations”, Climatic Change, 1999.

Spanning ‘Not Implausible’Futures to Assess Relative Vulnerability to Climate Change and Climate Variability”(with Mark Jacobsen and Taras Gapotchenko), Global Environmental Change, 1999 and presented at the Third Open Meeting of the International Human Dimension Programme in Kanagawa, Japan, June 24-26, 1999.

“Meeting Concentration Targets in the Post-Kyoto World - Does Kyoto Further a Least Cost Strategy?” (with Mark Jacobsen), Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 1999.

“Risk and Uncertainties, Analysis and Evaluation: Lessons for Adaptation and Integration” (with Hadi Dowlatabadi) proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change, San Jose,Costa Rica, March 29-April 1, 1998 and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2000

“Sea Level Change: The Expected Economic Cost of Protection or Abandonment in the United States (with Michael Schlesinger), Climatic Change, 1998.

“Comprehending the Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change by Integrated Assessment” (with Hans Joachim Schellnhuber) presented at the Conference on the World Climate Research Programme, Geneva, August 27, 1997 and the Proceedings, 1998.

“Fixing Global Carbon Emissions: Choosing the Best Target Year” (with Tricia Malinowski and Marielle Yohe), Energy Policy, 1998.

 


Work in Progress:

  Research continues on adaptation to climate change in Egypt, the economic geography of climate change, visioning global equity and sustainability over the long-term, and evaluating the robustness of a globally coherent climate fingerprint.





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